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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 6 months ago
Do all birds tweet the same?: characterizing twitter around the world
Social media services have spread throughout the world in just a few years. They have become not only a new source of information, but also new mechanisms for societies world-wide...
Barbara Poblete, Ruth Garcia, Marcelo Mendoza, Ale...
HCI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Cultural Usability Tests - How Usability Tests Are Not the Same All over the World
The cultural diversity of users of technology challenges our methods for usability evaluation. In this paper we report on a multi-site, cross-cultural grounded theory field study o...
Torkil Clemmensen, Qingxin Shi, Jyoti Kumar, Huiya...
IWUC
2004
13 years 7 months ago
On Uncertainty in Context-Aware Computing: Appealing to High-Level and Same-Level Context for Low-Level Context Verification
There is an inherent chasm between the real-world and the world that can be perceived by computer systems, yielding uncertainty and ambiguity in system perceived context, with cons...
Amir Padovitz, Seng Wai Loke, Arkady B. Zaslavsky
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Interpretation of multiple probe sets mapping to the same gene in Affymetrix GeneChips
Background: Affymetrix GeneChip technology enables the parallel observations of tens of thousands of genes. It is important that the probe set annotations are reliable so that bio...
Maria A. Stalteri, Andrew P. Harrison
APPINF
2003
13 years 7 months ago
A Comparison of Two Different Java Technologies to Implement a Mobile Agent System
This paper describes an evaluation of the two technologies Aglets from IBM Japan and JavaSpaces from Sun Microsystems used to implement the same mobile agent system. The Aglets fr...
Alf Inge Wang, Carl-Fredrik Sørensen